Bond Alternatives For The Coming Sharknado |
| October 17, 2013 | October 2013 Bond Updates |
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The expected return of a bond is its yield. Problem: we live in a world where the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates artificially low. A 10-year Treasury bond pays 2.7%, perhaps 1.2% after inflation in the best case. If inflation springs up along the way, which seems somewhere between likely and inevitable, this would leave us with a negative real return. |
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